Definitions
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- noun The political ideology of militant Islamists viewed as an agency of oppression or hostility toward democracy.
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- noun pejorative, offensive Socially
repressive ornationalistic Islamic fundamentalism .
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For the man who for better or worse popularized the term Islamofascism, as he discusses here, this is one of those subjects.
The Short List 2011
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The term Islamofascism was first used in 1990 in Britain's Independent newspaper by Scottish writer Malise Ruthven, who was writing about the way in which traditional Arab dictatorships used religious appeals in order to stay in power.
Hitchens on Islamofascism... GayandRight 2007
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The term Islamofascism strikes me as a pretty apt description of the political and religious movement of which al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas, and other extremist Muslim groups are members.
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The term Islamofascism was first used in 1990 in Britain's Independent newspaper by Scottish writer Malise Ruthven, who was writing about the way in which traditional Arab dictatorships used religious appeals in order to stay in power.
Archive 2007-10-01 GayandRight 2007
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The book is actually God is Not Great and Hitchens argues that the term Islamofascism is entirely appropriate
Knowledge is Power and That is Why republicans Demand We Abandon It Ellen Beth Gill 2007
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What genius will be able to explain to us that the term Islamofascism is absurd because Islam itself, in its entirety, is a form of fascism?
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If the term Islamofascism is to be so liberally applied to our self-created foes of the Islamic world (read Michael Scheuer's Imperial Hubris) it might be appropriate to coin another to describe American fundamentalists: Christo-Zio-Fascism.
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If the term Islamofascism is to be so liberally applied to our self-created foes of the Islamic world (read Michael Scheuer's Imperial Hubris) it might be appropriate to coin another to describe American fundamentalists: Christo-Zio-Fascism.
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In a political shift that shocked many of his friends and readers, he cut his ties to The Nation and became an outspoken advocate of the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and a ferocious critic of what he called "Islamofascism."
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GRIMES 2011
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He branded the EU "essentially fascist" and said he feared what he called Islamofascism which was spreading across Europe and Britain.
Mirror.co.uk - News 2009
chained_bear commented on the word Islamofascism
"He has always known that speaking of a 'crusade' and 'Islamofascism' was a good way to make jihadists out of Muslim teenagers..."
—Evan Thomas and Stuart Taylor Jr., "Obama vs. Obama," Newsweek, January 18, 2010
March 17, 2010